Not enjoying the Thanksgiving spirit? Here's an unusual poem by Clarence V. Odell describing the turkey-eat-turkey dynamic of a 'gobble,' another name for a flock of the big birds (also known as a 'rafter').
"NINE greedy gobblers having a fete,
One ate his head off, then there were eight...."
Pity the turkeys... it rarely ends well for them!
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